# AFFARS PART 5346Quality Assurance

AFFARS LIBRARY

- PART 5346
  Quality Assurance

- SUBPART 5346.1 – GENERAL

- 5346.103 Contracting office responsibilities.

- SUBPART 5346.7 — WARRANTIES

- 5346.702 General.
- 5346.708 Warranties of data.

AFFARS LIBRARY
Laws / Regulations / Policy | Informational Guidance | Training | Community Advice | Suggestion Box

| PART 5346 Quality Assurance [Revised August 18, 2005] |

SUBPART 5346.1 – GENERAL

5346.103 Contracting office responsibilities.

See Mandatory Procedures at MP5346.103 for Air Force requirements regarding training and oversight of contracting procedures for quality assurance personnel on services acquisitions. Informational Guidance for conducting Phase I and Phase II training is available at IG5346.103.

SUBPART 5346.7 — WARRANTIES

5346.702 General.

(c) The contracting officer shall require contractors to propose and justify warranty costs on an over and above basis and ensure that costs, such as quality assurance, sustaining engineering, and product support costs, that would have been incurred without the warranty are excluded. The contracting officer shall also require the contractor to separately identify actual warranty costs in cost reporting.
5346.708 Warranties of data.

When obtaining a warranty on reprocurement data, the contracting officer shall ensure that contract specifications and requirements define what constitutes a complete, accurate, and adequate acquisition data package and that the warranty period covers the Government's intended first use of the package for a competitive procurement.